Umm…I’m debating between TS and buying SSL for the 3rd time.
I have a request for something I can’t seem to find information on with google.
Can someone please screen-cap the 2-deck views available in SSL? The last time I used SSL, there weren’t any options.
Also…here’s the weird one. Can someone make a video of using Vinyl Scroll with the cover-art browser instead of the normal list view? It’s easy to do on OS X (start quicktime player and hit ctrl-cmd-n) and doesn’t need to be that long…I just want to see how it works and can’t find it online.
Video of vinyl scroll with album art… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16521858/vinylscrollart.mov . Note you can adjust the scroll speed faster or slower to your liking, this was at about 3/4 fast. Also, seems you indirectly found a bug! As you will see in the the video, in the grid album art modes, it’s not going through songs left/right, seems to go only up/down in the column. Should go left/right through the songs. Will report this bug.
Yes, this is all in the current 2.3.3 version. To be honest, I can’t tell you the last version vinyl scrolling in grid album art worked correctly, as I only have an SL2/SL4 and 68. Those devices only work with 2.2.2 and higher. So I can’t test anything lower than 2.2.2. But it’s been broken since at least 2.2.2. I’ve already reported the bug, so hopefully it will be fixed in the next version.
Also note, these were all taken on a 13" Macbook Pro (1280x800). If you have a bigger screen/higher resolution, some things will look different (bigger, smaller, wider, etc.).
Honestly Mostapha, the GUI on Serato is what sold me as well. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate Traktor and all of what it can do. But if you’re going to be doing 2 turntables and an external mixer, I just like the way Serato operates.
I’ve also had a chance to mess with The Bridge. And it just fucking works. And that is amazing in and of itself. It really makes me want to get an APC 40 to add that control into my setup. But then I’d want an SL3 or SL4 so I could run The Bridge on the 3rd or 4th deck (it takes up one of the deck slots).
I’m also interested in how ATC behaves when Maschine is hosted in Live. Syncing it to traktor won’t work for what I want to do, since it basically requires beat grids. I’m sold on ATC working perfectly, but I’m not sure how maschine follows live’s transport (I know it follows tempo).
If you have a spare soundcard you can use any to route sound out from Ableton. I haven’t tried it yet, but I have an SL2 and am thinking about using my Audio 2 to try it.
SSL does still have the needle drop to cue point feature in relative mode. I haven’t used it yet, but it’s there (Just checked.)
You can check for some of the settings stuff as well since SSL is free to download. You can mess around with the settings a bit to check out little features. I did that for a bit before getting SSL. Also because I could just bring my laptop and hook into my buddy’s setup easily as well. But it’s worth downloading and digging into a bit if you’re still on the cusp again of picking which one to go with
Yes it still does. Although I don’t use Drop to cue point , I extensively use Drop to absolute position which is using best from both worlds (absolute AND relative).
It’d be more useful with actual vinyl, since you can use stickers and read the waveforms more easily than translating from a screen to the minute markers, but…still.
Yeah…this is really looking like it’s going to win.
@BB, I actually know that SSL is free to download. It’s sitting in ~/Downloads, I just haven’t gotten around to actually installing it and looking through the settings since most of my questions were about the GUI, not the settings. Those questions came up later somehow.
(Just checked.)